For the second year in a row, I managed to increase the number of music tracks I listened to year-over-year. It's the most I've listened to in ten years.
Like last year last.fm offers a year in review, and it looks like they made some changes. One thing that stood out to me is my "Music By Decade" bar chart, copied below. If you ask people about when their favorite music is from, or equivalently when the best music was made in their opinion, they generally pick music from their teenaged years1. I won't deny that a good fraction of my favorite music is from my teenaged years, but I make a concerted effort to listen to new music. The chart below shows that the plurality of the tracks I listened to in 2025 are from the current decade, which shows I followed through on this effort. Even listening to 30 year old albums nearly every week hasn't tipped the distribution heavily to the 1990s.
Let's see if I continue to listen to more music, and new music too, in 2026!
- see the chart at the bottom of this post ↩︎